The most pleasingly instructive art exhibition that the U.S. tourist can turn off the turnpike to see this summer is on show in Allentown, Pa.
Allentown gets its name from a celebrated chief justice of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, who in 1761 sent off a letter to his agents in Leghorn directing that £100 be advanced to a young Pennsylvanian who was passing through on his way to study in Rome. "From all accounts," wrote William Allen, "he is like to turn out a very extraordinary person in the painting way, and it is a...
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